Nfl draft 2020

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Ah.

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Ruggs is better in the Raiders system. He is a catch and run guy with blazing speed. I am very happy with the pick.

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And thank you NFL draft for smacking me back to normalcy. I feel alive again.

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The Broncos need to draft Jalen Hurts, if for no other reason that I truly want to see him standing next to Jake Butt on the field at least once. :smiley:

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Raiders need a #1 WR, not a speedster who was the 3rd option on his own team who never had a 1000 yard season. Ruggs, to me, is more John Ross than Tyreek Hill.

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Standard raiders WR pick, you say?

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At least Heyward Bey had an inch and a half on Ruggs.

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Riggs is a big play guy.

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Just my opinion. With Lamb and Jeudy still on the board, I think Ruggs was a reach. You and Gruden disagree. That’s the fun of the draft.

Best of luck with Ruggs and Arnette.

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As an aside, I’m reminded of my distaste of draft graders who refuse to take a stance and praise almost every pick. Just check out the post draft grades. The worst grade a team gets is a C and a vast majority of teams are in the B- to B+ range. Its silly.

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Ugh. Fucking Packers.

I’m done for the night.

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Not sure I how I feel about Love’s potential, but again the Packers invest in the QB position when they didn’t need to. It’ll probably work out for them…again.

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I couldnt agree more. The Raiders really need a playmaker to open things up for Jacobs. The biggest mystery for the Raiders is if many will be able to travel to the games next year.

Thank you for keeping your draft thread tradition alive.

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I want to believe it was a mistake, but I can’t help feeling that they just drafted another HoF QB, because life isn’t fair.

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I tend to judge drafts using 3 metrics: 1) Player Evaluation, 2) Value, 3) Team Need.

By all 3 metrics, the Packers trading up to draft Jordan Love was a huge mistake.

  1. He’s inaccurate, gets rattled easily, and makes poor decisions. While he has the physical tools to develop in the NFL, he’s a huge project who has, to me, more bust than stud in him.
  2. I had Love as a 3rd round developmental project at best. Most commentators agree that he was a reach, and trading up to get him (while giving up a 4th rounder isn’t horrible, it’s still bad) was idiocy, and he’s not going to see the field for the next 3 years, so any value of drafting a QB in the 1st round is wasted.
  3. When you’re a team who just made the NFC Championship game and you have a shortening window to win now, you don’t draft a player who shouldn’t see the field for 3 or 4 years. Draft a QB, yes. Overdraft a developmental QB in the first round when you have a 36 year old Hall of Fame QB on the roster, no. Grab an immediate starter (Patrick Queen, Jeff Gladney, or Kristian Fulton would all start on this Packers team), not a guy who, unless things go to shit, won’t see the field for another 3 or 4 years (and then, even if he is everything you hope he is, you have to fucking pay him the moon after getting maybe one year of value out of him)

Anyone who tries to play this off as akin to the Packers drafting Rodgers when they have Favre ignores that facts that: a) Rodgers was wayyyyyyyy better than Love; b) Rodgers, who was in the running for the #1 pick, was fantastic value at #24 while Love is clearly outside the top 3 QBs in the class and is a reach usually made by desperate stupid teams and c) Rodgers now is better than Favre was. Plus, Rodgers can be … prickly … to deal with and spending draft capital to trade up for his successor likely isn’t helpful to him.

Ugh, what a shitshow.

Other quick notes:

  1. Edwards Helaire before Swift surprises the heck out of me. With so many needs on the defensive side of the ball and good running backs being available much later, it seems like a dumb pick by the Chiefs. But, hey, they’re Super Bowl Champs.

  2. As much as I dislike Jerry Jones, I think he drafted the BPA. Sure their defense will suffer (who needs DBs anyway? And pass rushers aren’t THAT important), but Lamb was good value at 15 and maybe the defense can hang on for a couple more years.

  3. The Jets almost always make me smile. This year, they drafted physical freak/just OK football player Mekhi Becton and passed on Wirfs or getting a legit WR to help out Sam Darnold. Sure it’s no Christian Hackenberg in the 2nd round or drafting a kicker with your first pick in the draft. But it did make me smile.

  4. The Vikings are doing well so far. While I’m not sold on Jefferson being a gamechanger, he was the second best WR available (although I understand not everyone has my affinity for Brandon Aiyuk), and is the kind of WR who can have immediate success for the Vikes. Good value, position of need. What more do you want?

Then, when their pick at 25 came along, they saw a glut of great DB prospects available, and were able to pick up additional picks 117 and 176 from the Niners for trading down just 5 spots. They then got the BPA at a position of need. Fantastic. I love the idea of not being married to a single prospect and, after watching the Falcons and Raiders reach for lesser (to me) cornerbacks, I loved the availability of DBs in the late first/early second round. Also, fuck them.

  1. I have no clue what to make of Tua. I love his quick release, movement skills, and efficiency. I hate his injury risk, shitty Wonderlic, and the fact he was surrounded by awesome talent. Personally, I think he was well worth the #5 pick, but I’d be horribly afraid he’ll have trouble developing into a legit NFL QB. He’d be a guy I’d need to do a ton of research on before I’d pick him. Plus, the Jesus-y preachiness and family values crap he peddles is annoying as hell. He’s an enigma to me.
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I don’t care. Jeudy is a great receiver who finds ways to get open, and he also has pretty good speed and athleticism in his own right.

Speed by itself ain’t shit. There is so much more to receiving than just having breakaway speed.

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It’s the Raiders, Jake. :smiley: A long-standing love of super-fast receivers (as well as kickers and punters who can kick the crap out of the ball).

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As a Chefs fan, those were my thoughts as well. If they were going to draft an RB, I was rooting for Swift, as I’m also a partial Georgia fan. But I don’t have any real reason to second guess Veach and Reid on these calls. I’d have thought we had bigger needs on the other side of the ball, but maybe they just see him as a bigger fit on the team than anyone else.

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If only he was a complete receiver.